Onto Ankara to see where Kristina lives and teaches. During our time in Ankara the people of Turkey were celebrating Kurban Bayram the "Sacrifice Holiday". It's an Islamic holiday of sacrificing an animal. Everything around us and in town was shutdown which meant the whole city would be dead for at least Thursday and some of the city on Friday. So we took a day or two to relax and watch tv. I know it's terrible we are in Turkey and we ...

... br> back for dinner, I had a bit of a headache, so I decided to lay down before we headed out for our early 7:50 am flight to Istanbul.

We were on time for both our München to Istanbul fight, as well as our Istanbul to Ankara and made it successfully to our Hotel for the evening. Today we arrive at METU (Middle Eastern Technical University) where we will start our Study Abroad and stay for the next week and a half!

Our official itinerary for today was to spend the day in Ankara visiting with 2 groups that are working to protect the human rights of gay, lesbian, and trans-gendered minorities here. A worthy cause, but we decided to take a "day off" from our meetings to have a more relaxed day just the two of us exploring Cqppadocia where there is so much to see. On our way there ...